Not a week later, an mp3 file showed up in my inbox. He told me it would have gotten there sooner, but he had to wait until he could stop long enough to book some studio time. He played acoustic for this one. It took him five minutes to sum up two years, and I realized the song was just as much about us as it was about the people in the movie. After all, I hadn't even sent him the final version of the film.
The name of the song? Beautiful Truth.
There's a beauty in the truth
The damaged sometimes overlook
The broken take for granted
Though it's written plain
As in a book
A fire sparks from friendship
A bay breeze stokes the flames
Salvation is a mirror
Which one of us was saved?
Love's a savior
Love's a failure
Love's a dream
And love's a lie
But it's also been a nightmare
And the reason
And I'll know her
'Til I die
I'm always with you
Always in you
Always walking by your side
She said
She broke me
She found me
She set me free again
So I could find myself and then discover
The beautiful truth
The beautiful truth
The lonely
The wonderful
The beautiful truth
It would go at the end of the movie as Ellie was driving away, cutting to when Madison and Grant reunited.
I picked up the phone and called Barton for the first time in, well, years. He didn't answer. He was on stage at the moment. I knew he would be. But I left a message.
Please come home to me.
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The Beautiful Truth
RomanceSawyer Fitzgerald thought she knew the story of her now-divorced parents. It's colored her whole life thus far. Now in college, her English professor assigns her class to read the book that made her dad famous -- the one that he wrote for her mom ne...
